Joan Crawford

BOB THOMAS

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The author draws on his forty-year friendship with Fred Astaire to record the private life and distinguished career of the inventive and elegant dancer

The Man, The Dancer: The Life of Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Humor & Entertainment

st.martins press

A bewildered little fat man with sad, winning eyes and a tall, slick sharpie with a brass heart and a rapid-fire tongue have entertained three generations of Americans. Bud &amp; Lou is the hilarious, moving, and finally tragic story of one of the greatest movie comedy teams of all time: Abbott and Costello. In the lively, anecdotal style that has become his hallmark, Bob Thomas tells the very American story of Bud and Lou's long climb to stardom, from burlesque to Broadway, then radio and, finally, the movies. He describes the heady success of their first film, Buck Privates; their struggles to establish their place in a Hollywood which still considered the comic an outsider; and the antics on and off set that made them infamous among directors. He also takes us behind the scenes to the intriguing drama of the private personalities ... the tragedy that nearly destroyed Lou, Bud's alcoholism and epilepsy, the compulsive gambling, and, above all, the overriding sense of competition that would eventually destroy their partnership and their careers. Although they had earned an income of as much as two million dollars annually and rescued Universal Pictures from bankruptcy during lean times, they died penniless. Yet they bequeathed the American public a rich inheritance -- remembrance of the splendidly vulgar, innocently raucous, sensible nonsense of burlesque. Profusely illustrated with photographs, Bud &amp; Lou is written with the close cooperation of Eddie Sherman, their manager and lifelong friend, and with the help of colleagues and members of the Abbott and Costello families. It provides both an intimate glimpse of two complex and enduring personalities and an inside look at Hollywood during its heyday.

Bud & Lou: The Abbott & Costello story

Lippincott

Walt Disney Biography

London: New English Library, 1977

Selznick

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

W.H. Allen / Virgin Books

The former wife of Rock Hudson offers a candid, revealing account of her relationship with and marriage to the tragic Hollywood superstar

My Husband, Rock Hudson

Phyllis Gates

Jove

1978 Bantam; paperback; 6th Printing; Joan Crawford: A Biography by Bob Thomas; Includes "Special: 64 Pages of Stunning [black and white] Photographs.

Joan Crawford,: A Biography

BANTAM BOOKS

Walt Disney: An American Original

Walt Disney : An American Original

A detailed biography of the world-famous producer of cartoons, animated features, and nature films, chronicling his early failure and subsequent film and entertainment successes

Simon&Schuster

Few Hollywood careers have been more fabulous, more scandalous, more dizzyingly from rags to riches and from triumph to tragedy, more glaringly limelit than that of Joan Crawford born Lucille Fay LeSueur, in 1906 or (1908 according to her press releases) in Texas. Miss Crawford rose from being a telephone operator in Kansas City to glamour, glitter, romance and ultimate stardom.

Fireside

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